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New Polling Reveals Bipartisan Support for Social Security Reform
Read moreThere is broad, bipartisan support for balanced reforms that restore Social Security to solvency, according to the latest set of survey results from... -
Marc Goldwein: The best way toward a Social Security fix? This one is tried and true.
Read moreA Washington Post op-ed by Marc Goldwein of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget makes the case for assigning a bipartisan commission or... -
Don’t Let Social Security’s 91st Birthday Be One of Its Last
Read more91 years ago tomorrow, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed into law the Social Security Act of 1935, establishing what is now the nation’s... -
Marc Goldwein's Senate Testimony on Addressing Social Security Solvency
Read moreOn August 5, 2026, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget Senior Vice President and Senior Policy Director Marc Goldwein testified before the... -
New Approaches to Social Security Benefit Taxation
Read moreSocial Security’s retirement fund is on course to go insolvent in just six years; a few months later, Medicare’s Hospital Insurance (HI) trust fund is... -
A Flat-Rate COLA for Social Security
Read moreAs part of our Trust Fund Solutions Initiative, which introduces novel ideas to shore up the Social Security, Medicare, and Highway programs, we... -
Large Benefit Cuts Loom for Social Security
Read moreThe Social Security retirement program is just six years from insolvency, according to the program’s trustees. At that point, the law requires... -
PROMISE Act Jumpstarts Path Toward Saving Social Security
Read moreToday, Senators Bill Cassidy (R-LA), John Cornyn (R-TX), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Angus King (I-ME), and Thom Tillis (R-NC) introduced... -
Statement for the Record on The Future of Social Security
Read moreThe Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget submitted a statement for the record pertaining to the Senate Finance Committee hearing on "The Future... -
Marc Goldwein: Social Security is set to go insolvent unless leaders can make tough decisions on reform
Read moreMarc Goldwein is the senior vice president and senior policy director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote an opinion... -
Maya MacGuineas: Social Security and Medicare are unsustainable. Kansas, Missouri need action
Read moreMaya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. She recently wrote an opinion piece for the Kansas City Star, an... -
Event Recap: Checking in on the Social Security & Medicare Trust Funds
Read moreOn June 10, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted an online webinar, Checking in on the Social Security & Medicare Trust Funds. The...